Linux Format forumsHelp, discussion, magazine feedback and more2013-10-13T22:24:46+00:00http://linuxformat.com/forums/feed.php?t=162932013-10-13T22:24:46+00:002013-10-13T22:24:46+00:00http://linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16293&p=112689#p112689Yes, I could have gone into more details about the history of NTFS, but why? That wasn't the purpose of the tutorial and any historical trivia added would have been at the expense of more relevant information - like an explanation of the different between FUSE and in-kernel filesystems.

]]>2013-10-13T20:02:29+00:002013-10-13T20:02:29+00:00http://linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16293&p=112684#p112684Neil Bothwick wrote "Files in NTFS can only be written to safely if the file already exists and the new file is the same length as the old one".

Well, I often read/write to NTFS from Linux, so I was alarmed; thought it was OK these days. But he then goes on to say that it's OK with Fuse. Seems that Fuse is a driver which is not within the Linux kernel. I don't really care if it is in the kernal or not, so what a relief. A bit misleading and alarming, that first statement. I do indeed have references to ntfs-3g in my fstab.

He goes on to say that NTFS was developed for Windows NT. Technically true, but he could have said it was (I understand) merely an incremental improvement of HPFS [High performance FS] which was delevoped for OS/2.